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Transit Ridership: Calgary vs Edmonton

8.1M-654.5K from May 2025

Calgary · Latest: Jun 2025

Latest data: Sep 2026

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Transit rides each month in Calgary and in Edmonton. Calgary Transit counted 101.1 million rides in 2024, against 106.5 million in 2019; Edmonton Transit Service counted 61.6 million in 2024 and 61.8 million in 2025, against 55.2 million in 2019. The cities measure differently: Calgary works its figure out from fares collected, and Edmonton counts trips from start to finish with passenger counters on its buses and trains, so read the gap between them as a rough guide. Edmonton's count starts in 2019, when it changed method. Calgary's file has not been updated past June 2025, so its line stops there.

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Calgary Transit Boardings: Bus vs CTrain

Boardings on Calgary Transit buses and on the CTrain each month since 2010. A boarding counts each time a rider gets on, so one trip with a transfer counts twice. In 2024 the CTrain had 94.1 million boardings and buses 71.9 million; in 2014 buses had 81.9 million and the CTrain 90.0 million. Both fell by about half in 2020. The City's file has not been updated past June 2025.

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Registered Vehicles: Calgary vs Edmonton

Motorized vehicles registered to owners in the City of Calgary and the City of Edmonton, every type together, each year from 2005 to 2025. Calgary went from 743,767 to 1,109,440 and Edmonton from 492,890 to 763,644. Counted by the owner's address, so a fleet counts where its office is. The published file gives 2010 exactly the same figures as 2009 for both cities.

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311 Requests: Calgary vs Edmonton

311 requests to the City of Calgary and the City of Edmonton each month, every kind of request together. Calgary logged 485,719 in 2025 and 547,900 in 2014. Edmonton logged 900,446 in 2025, down from 2,129,674 in 2014; most of the drop came between 2018 and 2020. The two cities do not count the same thing: Edmonton's figures include calls for general information and inquiries, so its totals run higher than Calgary's service requests. Edmonton before 2023 comes from the City's per-year archive files, counted once per request because the 2017 file lists every request twice. A count of requests made, not of problems that exist.

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Incorporations — Edmonton and Calgary

Number of new incorporations registered each year, counted by municipality, from Service Alberta's corporate registry as published on the Alberta Regional Dashboard. A new incorporation is not the same as a new operating business.

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Businesses with Employees: Calgary vs Edmonton

Business locations with at least one employee in the City of Calgary and the City of Edmonton, from each June release of Statistics Canada's Canadian Business Counts, 2020 to 2026. Calgary had 57,817 in June 2026 and Edmonton 40,152. Statistics Canada advises that Business Counts should not be read as a time series: each release is a separate table from the Business Register, whose methods and classifications change between releases, so a change from one June to the next is not only businesses opening or closing. Compare the two cities within a year more than either city across years. Locations without employees (the self-employed) are not counted.

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Building Permits Issued — Edmonton and Calgary

Number of building permits granted each calendar year by the municipality, commercial, industrial, institutional and residential added together, as published on the Alberta Regional Dashboard. A count of permits, not of dwellings or of dollar value.

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